Named The Most Influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek and one of the 50 Most Influential Jews in the world by The Jerusalem Post, and twice named one of the 500 Most Influential People in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal, David Wolpe is the Max Webb Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple. RabbiWolpe previously taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, the American JewishUniversity in Los Angeles, Hunter College, and UCLA. A weekly columnist for the New York JewishWeek and weekly Torah columnist for the Jerusalem Post, Rabbi Wolpe has been published and profiled in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and many more. He has been featured on The Today Show, Face the Nation, ABC This Morning, and CBS ThisMorning. In addition, Rabbi Wolpe has appeared prominently in series on PBS, A&E, History Channel, Discovery Channel, and has engaged in widely watched public debates with Christopher Hitchens, SamHarris, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, and many others about religion and its place in the world. RabbiWolpe, who has spoken in seminars, public and scholarly forums, and scholar in residence appearances hundreds of times all over the world from Israel to India, is the author of eight books, including the national bestseller Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times (Riverhead). His new book is titled David, the Divided Heart (Yale U Press). It was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards and has been optioned for a movie by Warner Bros.